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16 U.S.C. § 777g — Maintenance of projects
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**(a) Duty of States; status of projects; title to property** To maintain fish-restoration and management projects established under the provisions of this chapter shall be the duty of the States according to their respective laws. Beginning July 1, 1953, maintenance of projects heretofore completed under the provisions of this chapter may be considered as projects under this chapter. Title to any real or personal property acquired by any State, and to improvements placed on State-owned lands through the use of funds paid to the State under the provisions of this chapter, shall be vested in such State.
**(b) Funding requirements**
(1) Each State shall allocate 15 percent of the funds apportioned to it for each fiscal year under [section 777c of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section777c&num=0&edition=prelim) for the payment of up to 75 per centum of the costs of the acquisition, development, renovation, or improvement of facilities (and auxiliary facilities necessary to insure the safe use of such facilities) that create, or add to, public access to the waters of the United States to improve the suitability of such waters for recreational boating purposes. Notwithstanding this provision, States within a United States Fish and Wildlife Service Administrative Region may allocate more or less than 15 percent in a fiscal year, provided that the total regional allocation averages 15 percent over a 5 year period.
(2) So much of the funds that are allocated by a State under paragraph (1) in any fiscal year that remained unexpended or unobligated at the close of such year are authorized to be made available for the purposes described in paragraph (1) during the succeeding four fiscal years, but any portion of such funds that
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**(a) Duty of States; status of projects; title to property** To maintain fish-restoration and management projects established under the provisions of this chapter shall be the duty of the States according to their respective laws. Beginning July 1, 1953, maintenance of projects heretofore completed under the provisions of this chapter may be considered as projects under this chapter. Title to any real or personal property acquired by any State, and to improvements placed on State-owned lands through the use of funds paid to the State under the provisions of this chapter, shall be vested in such State.
**(b) Funding requirements**
(1) Each State shall allocate 15 percent of the funds apportioned to it for each fiscal year under [section 777c of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section777c&num=0&edition=prelim) for the payment of up to 75 per centum of the costs of the acquisition, development, renovation, or improvement of facilities (and auxiliary facilities necessary to insure the safe use of such facilities) that create, or add to, public access to the waters of the United States to improve the suitability of such waters for recreational boating purposes. Notwithstanding this provision, States within a United States Fish and Wildlife Service Administrative Region may allocate more or less than 15 percent in a fiscal year, provided that the total regional allocation averages 15 percent over a 5 year period.
(2) So much of the funds that are allocated by a State under paragraph (1) in any fiscal year that remained unexpended or unobligated at the close of such year are authorized to be made available for the purposes described in paragraph (1) during the succeeding four fiscal years, but any portion of such funds that remain unexpended or unobligated at the close of such period are authorized to be made available for expenditure by the Secretary of the Interior to supplement the 58.012 percent of the balance of each annual appropriation to be apportioned among the States under [section 777c(c) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section777c/c&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(c) Aquatic resource education program; funding, etc.** Each State may use not to exceed 15 percent of the funds apportioned to it under [section 777c of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section777c&num=0&edition=prelim) to pay up to 75 per centum of the costs of an aquatic resource education and outreach and communications program for the purpose of increasing public understanding of the Nation’s water resources and associated aquatic life forms. The non-Federal share of such costs may not be derived from other Federal grant programs. The Secretary shall issue not later than the one hundred and twentieth day after the effective date of this subsection such regulations as he deems advisable regarding the criteria for such programs.
**(d) National Outreach and Communications Program**
(1) **Implementation** — Within 1 year after June 9, 1998, the Secretary of the Interior shall develop and implement, in cooperation and consultation with the Sport Fishing and Boating Partnership Council, a national plan for outreach and communications.
(2) **Content** — The plan shall provide—
(A) guidance, including guidance on the development of an administrative process and funding priorities, for outreach and communications programs; and
(B) for the establishment of a national program.
(3) **Secretary may match or fund programs** — Under the plan, the Secretary may obligate amounts available under subsection (a)(5) or subsection (b) of [section 777c of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section777c&num=0&edition=prelim)—
(A) to make grants to any State or private entity to pay all or any portion of the cost of carrying out any outreach and communications program under the plan; or
(B) to fund contracts with States or private entities to carry out such a program.
(4) **Review** — The plan shall be reviewed periodically, but not less frequently than once every 3 years.
**(e) State outreach and communications program** Within 12 months after the completion of the national plan under subsection (d)(1), a State shall develop a plan for an outreach and communications program and submit it to the Secretary. In developing the plan, a State shall—
(1) review the national plan developed under subsection (d);
(2) consult with anglers, boaters, the sportfishing and boating industries, and the general public; and
(3) establish priorities for the State outreach and communications program proposed for implementation.
**(f) Pumpout stations and waste reception facilities** Amounts apportioned to States under [section 777c of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section777c&num=0&edition=prelim) may be used to pay not more than 75 percent of the costs of constructing, renovating, operating, or maintaining pumpout stations and waste reception facilities (as those terms are defined in the Clean Vessel Act of 1992).
**(g) Surveys**
(1) **National framework** — Within 6 months after June 9, 1998, the Secretary, in consultation with the States, shall adopt a national framework for a public boat access needs assessment which may be used by States to conduct surveys to determine the adequacy, number, location, and quality of facilities providing access to recreational waters for all sizes of recreational boats.
(2) **State surveys** — Within 18 months after June 9, 1998, each State that agrees to conduct a public boat access needs survey following the recommended national framework shall report its findings to the Secretary for use in the development of a comprehensive national assessment of recreational boat access needs and facilities.
(3) **Exception** — Paragraph (2) does not apply to a State if, within 18 months after June 9, 1998, the Secretary certifies that the State has developed and is implementing a plan that ensures there are and will be public boat access adequate to meet the needs of recreational boaters on its waters.
(4) **Funding** — A State that conducts a public boat access needs survey under paragraph (2) may fund the costs of conducting that assessment out of amounts allocated to it as funding dedicated to motorboat access to recreational waters under subsection (b)(1) of this section.
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To carry out the provisions of this chapter for fiscal years after September 30, 1984, there are authorized to be appropriated from the Sport Fish Restoration and Boating Trust Fund established by [section 9504(a) of title 26](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title26-section9504/a&num=0&edition=prelim) the amounts paid, transferred, or otherwise credited to that Trust Fund, except as provided in [section 9504(c) of title 26](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title26-section9504/c&num=0&edition=prelim). For purposes of the provision of the Act of August 31, 1951, which refers to this section, such amounts shall be treated as the amounts that are equal to the revenues described in this section. The appropriation made under the provisions of this section for each fiscal year shall continue available during succeeding fiscal years. So much of such appropriation apportioned to any State for any fiscal year as remains unexpended at the close thereof is authorized to be made available for expenditure in that State until the close of the succeeding fiscal year. Any amount apportioned to any State under the provisions of this chapter which is unexpended or unobligated at the end of the period during which it is available for expenditure on any project is authorized to be made available for expenditure by the Secretary of the Interior to supplement the 58.012 percent of the balance of each annual appropriation to be apportioned among the States, as provided for in [section 777c(c) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section777c/c&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a) In general** For each fiscal year through fiscal year 2026, the balance of each annual appropriation made in accordance with the provisions of [section 777b of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section777b&num=0&edition=prelim) remaining after the distributions for administrative expenses and other purposes under subsection (b) and for activities under [section 777m(e) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section777m/e&num=0&edition=prelim) shall be distributed as follows:
(1) **Coastal wetlands** — An amount equal to 18.673 percent to the Secretary of the Interior for distribution as provided in the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection,11 So in original. The comma probably should not appear. and Restoration Act ([16 U.S.C. 3951](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section3951&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.).
(2) **Boating safety** — An amount equal to 17.315 percent to the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating for State recreational boating safety programs under [section 13107 of title 46](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title46-section13107&num=0&edition=prelim).
(3) **Boating infrastructure improvement**
(A) *In general* — An amount equal to 4 percent to the Secretary of the Interior for qualified projects under section 5604(c) of the Clean Vessel Act of 1992 ([33 U.S.C. 1322](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section1322&num=0&edition=prelim) note) and [section 777g–1(d) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section777g–1/d&num=0&edition=prelim).
(B) *Limitation* — Not more than 75 percent o
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Level II of the Executive Schedule applies to the following positions, for which the annual rate of basic pay shall be the rate determined with respect to such level under chapter 11 of title 2, as adjusted by [section 5318 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5318&num=0&edition=prelim):
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**(a) Definitions** In this section, the term—
(1) “new vessel” includes every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on the navigable waters, the construction of which is initiated after promulgation of standards and regulations under this section;
(2) “existing vessel” includes every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on the navigable waters, the construction of which is initiated before promulgation of standards and regulations under this section;
(3) “public vessel” means a vessel owned or bareboat chartered and operated by the United States, by a State or political subdivision thereof, or by a foreign nation, except when such vessel is engaged in commerce;
(4) “United States” includes the States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Canal Zone, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands;
(5) “marine sanitation device” includes any equipment for installation on board a vessel which is designed to receive, retain, treat, or discharge sewage, and any process to treat such sewage;
(6) “sewage” means human body wastes and the wastes from toilets and other receptacles intended to receive or retain body wastes except that, with respect to commercial vessels on the Great Lakes, such term shall include graywater;
(7) “manufacturer” means any person engaged in the manufacturing, assembling, or importation of marine sanitation devices, marine pollution control device equipment, or vessels subject to standards and regulations promulgated under this section;
(8) “person” means an individual, partnership, firm, corporation, association, or
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**(a) Cooperation between Federal Government and State fish and game departments; expenditure of funds** The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to cooperate with the States through their respective State fish and game departments in fish restoration and management projects as hereinafter set forth: No money apportioned under this chapter to any State, except as hereinafter provided, shall be expended therein until its legislature, or other State agency authorized by the State constitution to make laws governing the conservation of fish, shall have assented to the provisions of this chapter and shall have passed laws for the conservation of fish, which shall include a prohibition against the diversion of license fees paid by fishermen for any other purpose than the administration of said State fish and game department, except that, until the final adjournment of the first regular session of the legislature held after passage of this chapter, the assent of the governor of the State shall be sufficient. The Secretary of the Interior and the State fish and game department of each State accepting the benefits of this chapter shall agree upon the fish restoration and management projects to be aided in such State under the terms of this chapter, and all projects shall conform to the standards fixed by the Secretary of the Interior.
**(b) Allocation of amounts by coastal States between marine fish projects and freshwater fish projects**
(1) **In general** — Subject to paragraph (2), each coastal State, to the extent practicable, shall equitably allocate amounts apportioned to such State under this chapter between marine fish projects and freshwater fish projects in the same proportion as the estimated number of resident marine anglers and the estimated numbe
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**(a) Definitions.—** In this title, the following definitions apply:
(1) **Apportionment.—** — The term “apportionment” includes unexpended apportionments made under prior authorization laws.
(2) **Asset management.—** — The term “asset management” means a strategic and systematic process of operating, maintaining, and improving physical assets, with a focus on both engineering and economic analysis based upon quality information, to identify a structured sequence of maintenance, preservation, repair, rehabilitation, and replacement actions that will achieve and sustain a desired state of good repair over the lifecycle of the assets at minimum practicable cost.
(3) **Carpool project.—** — The term “carpool project” means any project to encourage the use of carpools and vanpools, including provision of carpooling opportunities to the elderly and individuals with disabilities, systems for locating potential riders and informing them of carpool opportunities, acquiring vehicles for carpool use, designating existing highway lanes as preferential carpool highway lanes, providing related traffic control devices, designating existing facilities for use for preferential parking for carpools, and real-time ridesharing projects, such as projects where drivers, using an electronic transfer of funds, recover costs directly associated with the trip provided through the use of location technology to quantify those direct costs, subject to the condition that the cost recovered does not exceed the cost of the trip provided.
(4) **Construction.—** — The term “construction” means the supervising, inspecting, actual building, and incurrence of all costs incidental to the construction or reconstruction of a highway or any project eligible for assistance under this title, including bon
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**(a) Purpose** The purpose of this section is to provide funds to States for the development and maintenance of facilities for transient nontrailerable recreational vessels.
**(b) Omitted**
**(c) Plan** Within 6 months after submitting a survey to the Secretary under [section 777g(g) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section777g/g&num=0&edition=prelim), a State may develop and submit to the Secretary a plan for the construction, renovation, and maintenance of facilities for transient nontrailerable recreational vessels, and access to those facilities, to meet the needs of nontrailerable recreational vessels operating on navigable waters in the State.
**(d) Grant program**
(1) **Matching grants** — The Secretary of the Interior shall obligate amounts made available under section 777c(a)(4) 11 See References in Text note below. of this title to make grants to any State to pay not more than 75 percent of the cost to a State of constructing, renovating, or maintaining facilities for transient nontrailerable recreational vessels.
(2) **Priorities** — In awarding grants under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall give priority to projects that—
(A) consist of the construction, renovation, or maintenance of facilities for transient nontrailerable recreational vessels in accordance with a plan submitted by a State under subsection (c);
(B) provide for public/private partnership efforts to develop, maintain, and operate facilities for transient nontrailerable recreational vessels; and
(C) propose innovative ways to increase the availability of facilities for transient nontrailerable recreational vessels.
**(e) Definitions** For purposes of this section, the term—
(1) “nontrailerable recreational vessel” means a recr
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TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§ 777f
1 So in original. Probably should be ‘‘subsection’’.
Aroostock Rivers and their tributaries, and
identify fish and wildlife habitat in most need of
protection or where public access to the rivers
should be provided. In addition, the Director
shall, in cooperation with appropriate State
agencies and local governments and after pro-
viding notice and opportunity for public com-
ment, identify appropriate public or private
measures for providing the necessary protection
or access for each area included in the inven-
tory. Within two years of November 16, 1990, the
Director shall submit a report containing the
findings, conclusions, and recommendations of
the inventory and assessment to the House Com-
mittee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and
the Senate Committee on Environment and Pub-
lic Works.
(f) Authorization of appropriations
There are authorized to be appropriated to the
Director—
(1) $5,000,000 per year for fiscal years 1991,
1992, 1993, 1994, and 1995 to implement fishery
resource restoration plans and programs, ex-
cept for activities related to the design and
construction of fish passage facilities, as di-
rected by subsection (c);
(2) $500,000 per year for fiscal years 1991, 1992,
and 1993 to conduct the study required under
subsection (d); and
(3) $500,000 to conduct the inventory and as-
sessment required under section 1 (e).
(Pub. L. 101–593, title I, § 111, Nov. 16, 1990, 104
Stat. 2960.)
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REFERENCES IN TEXT
This section, referred to in subsec. (b), was in the
original ‘‘this Act’’, which probably was intended as a
reference to New England Fishery Resources Restora-
tion Act of 1990, section 111 of Pub. L. 101–593, title I,
Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 2960, which is classifie
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